The (Arguably) Prophetic Movie “Network” – Part I
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
The past as prologue for our present, and future?
1976 was an odd year. It was our nation’s bicentennial, with appropriate celebrations to honor our Divinely-inspired nation’s 200th birthday.
At the same time, we were well into the malaise era of just post-Vietnam, just post-Watergate, domestic revolutionaries and terrorists running amok, rising crime, ongoing energy crises and heretofore unheard-of levels of inflation (we went off of the gold standard in 1971).
During this bipolar period, certain movies hit a real chord with the public (at least with non-Progressive nee “liberal” audiences): the Dirty Harry series, the Death Wish series. And from a different angle, the 1976 movie Network.
Now almost 50 years on, two iconic scenes from that movie will strike you today as eerily predictive of where we now find ourselves. In that, we may find hope – for a few years after the movie, we gained a President Reagan and “morning in America.” We can’t know if we will reprise an American renewal now; but we do know that it is possible. If … [more on that later].
A MUST WATCH: The first iconic scene to share with is the main character, network anchor “Howard Beale,” being lectured by his boss “Arthur Jensen” about that actual structure of world. (For context, arguably the closest analogue today to “Howard Beale” would be Tucker Carlson.)
As you watch, ponder the “Great Reset” currently being peddled by Globalist interests — the WEF, U.N., multinational corporations, central bankers and the CCP – coalescing around consummation of that vision circa 2030.
As you’ve now seen, there are even hints of the “by 2030 you will own nothing and be happy” and “universal basic income” schemes currently being promoted by the WEF:
And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
That scene implies that the “Great Reset” has actually been in the works for several decades now (it has). That said, I would not chalk this movie up to predictive programming (given the passage of time between it and now), but more to insight regarding what was in the works even then. Albeit the powers that be at that time being comfortable that audiences would view it more as exaggerated black humor, not as revealing or predictive.
The second scene to share is the movie’s most iconic one; it simultaneously captured and fed the malaise zeitgeist of the time. This is Howard Beale’s rant for us all to yell out: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” You will find his laundry-list of ailments then-facing our country uncannily current:
Today we’re living in just post-coup d’etat America, with an obviously dementia-riddled unelected puppet of the CCP occupying the White House; a bobble-head “President” whose minders are intentionally subverting our culture, or economy and military. Demonic forces fully intending to not only to takedown our Divinely-inspired nation, but enslaving the entire globe under their “sustainable” “Great Reset.”
Due to media manipulation, many normies are still blue-pilled, and don’t recognize what’s now well underway — even as they suffer, e.g., under the sting of inflation levels not seen since the 1970’s.
However, with each passing day, more and more individuals are becoming red-pilled.
Therein lies hope, for perhaps there’s still time for a critical mass of us to rise up, and begin the restoration of our Constitutional Republic.
First, by crying out in unison: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”